Cloud Engineer III at Shoprite Group of Companies

Job Objectives

• Design, develop, and maintain advanced cloud infrastructure solutions using AWS services to support the Business’s cloud infrastructure requirements. Ensure Cloud Expenditure and Cloud Security is managed proactively.  
• Collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders to understand their cloud infrastructure needs and translate them into scalable and dependable solutions that align with business goals. 
• Implement monitoring, testing, and automation procedures for cloud infrastructure, ensuring its efficiency and reliability. 
• Participate in infrastructure’s code, code reviews, adhering to standards and best practices for cloud infrastructure development. 
• Lead efforts to diagnose and address cloud-related issues while providing effective solutions to maintain a healthy cloud environment. 
• Own the stability and uptime of the cloud infrastructure platforms in AWS used to deliver high quality solutions. 
• Lead the effort in maintaining comprehensive and well-organized documentation for infrastructure. 
• Build and maintain a library of reusable cloud engineering artifacts to expedite the development of analytics solutions. 
• Lead the efforts in building sustainable deployment patterns and processes for releasing cloud infrastructure. 
• Play a key role in promoting and implementing DevOps best practices within the team. 
• Drive the enablement and adoption of cloud engineering best practices, guiding team members in implementing standards, and collaborative development processes to optimize infrastruture outcomes. 
• Proactively explore and discover opportunities to enhance systems and cloud processes within their area of responsibility. 
• Provide expert technical guidance, mentorship, and support to team members.

Qualifications

• A related IT Qualification 
• AWS Cloud certification 

Experience

• +5 years of practical experience using AWS cloud platform 
• Experience in building and managing cloud platforms using Kubernetes for container orchestration – (essential) 
• Experience with opensource tools such as Airflow, MLFlow, Grafana and Spark – (highly beneficial)